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A spokesman for the Catalan police announced Friday that Brazilian defender Dani Alves was arrested in Barcelona as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual assault. And the Spanish city court had opened, on the 10th of this month, an investigation into an “alleged sexual assault crime after a complaint filed by a woman against a soccer player,” without mentioning the player’s name, while an informed source confirmed that the matter was related to Alves, who denied these accusations or his knowledge of the complainant. .
Spanish police arrested Brazilian defender Dani Alves Barcelona Friday, against the background of an investigation into suspected sexual assault, according to the Catalan regional police.
In the context, a spokesman for the Catalan police explained: “He came this morning to the police station in Les Corts,” a neighborhood of Barcelona, where he was “called. He was arrested on his way” to the Court of Justice in Barcelona. According to a judicial source, a judge is scheduled to hear him.
And a court in Barcelona announced on the 10th of this month that it had “opened an investigation into an alleged sexual assault crime after a complaint filed by a woman against a soccer player,” without mentioning the player’s name. While an informed source confirmed that this accusation affects Alves.
The regional police said the woman, who filed a complaint on January 2, accuses the 39-year-old of touching him inappropriately.
Local newspapers reported that the alleged incidents took place in a famous nightclub in Barcelona on the night of 30-31 December.
On the other hand, Alves denied, in a letter sent to the Spanish channel “Antena 3” on the fifth of this month, any criminal behavior and said that he did not know the complainant. In it, he said: “I was there, in that place with a lot of people having fun. Everyone knows that I love to dance and have a good time but without violating the privacy of others.”
The Barcelona and Juventus defender, and the former French Paris Saint-Germain, spent a few days vacation in Catalonia after participating in the World Cup in Qatar with the Brazilian national team, as he became the oldest player to defend the colors of “Seleção” in the finals, and before returning to his current club, Pumas Onam, Mexico.
France 24/AFP